[78-L] First LP

[Royal Pemberton]

Another howler from the Wallerstein thing....that bit about having Ampex and
EMI machines by 1947....from what I understand the first Ampex recorder, the
200A, was introduced in April 1948, and the first EMI machine, the BTR 1,
came along six months later.

The only Columbia album I know of prior to SOUTH PACIFIC that used tape was
the first I CAN HEAR IT NOW production, which would have used the Brush BK
401 Soundmirror machine (1947).

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>wrote:

> Having been at WB for seventeen years, I know full well that bullshit runs
> deep, and if a company can make themselves look better or claim something
> they didn't do, they'll do it.
>
> I also had several Decca LPs from 1949 that came from their 'albums' and
> the
> quality was better than Columbia's product. Their pressing materials
> weren't
> that great, though. But the beauty of the sound quality coming especially
> from their west coast studio still blows me away.
>
> I know this was probably covered before, but weren't the tape masters for
> South Pacific used for a CD reissue? And which ones did we say were better
> (or is that relative)?
>
> And can anybody (Dr. Biel?) tell me that latest date that RCA was using
> disc
> cutting for master recording? My mentor Jerry Graff did a session for
> Victor
> in 1952 or 1953 and specifically remembered a cutting lathe used at the
> session (he did not remember a tape machine in use).
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
> >
> > IDIOT!  The first recording to be mastered on tape, along side of disc,
> > supposedly, is South Pacific in 1949.  And they used the disc masters.
> >
> > Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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